Merry Christmas...

'Deck the walls and floors with frosting...'

'Tis the season, after all.


Pics 1 &2 are the obligatory Christmas #soblessed shots. 'Christmas Cookies With Kiddiwinks.'

Nice, eh? Soooo Christmassy! (Ho-ho-ho!)

Okay, now take a nice long look at pics 3 through to 5, (or 'Kitchen Armageddon' as I've privately labeled this selection of images.) Observe the alarming wreckage of flour, icing sugar, silver balls, sticky goop, and miscellaneous baking detritus adorning each and every surface of our 'heart of the home'...

('Ooh, it'll all end in tears!' Yes. It did. Mine! But that's another story.)

Note how there are no pics of me or the kids. They were tearing about the house on a sugar-fuelled rampage, terrifying the cats with their euphoric ear-splitting shrieks of merriment. Mummy, meanwhile, was wide-eyed and trembling, muttering to herself as she scraped down the walls and doors, occasionally pausing to take a crafty swig of her cold, whiskey-laced tea. 

Yes, #MakingMemories can be a really mucky, messy business but I wouldn't have it any other way. Honest! :D

Thanksgiving 2018...

... With love and best wishes to all my friends over at the other side of the pond.

Aftermath...

'Have you forgotten yet?
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget...'

Siegfried Sassoon - Aftermath

Top Tips...

Mostly true... especially number 4! 

Of cuddles and conkers...

On a rather breezy(!) autumnal day, in between writing sprints, there's always time for a cuddle or ten...

I love you, Mama!

No, I REALLY do love you, Mama!

Sir Fleur shows off today's conker haul.

Guess what?

Today, I found ANOTHER A5 pad full of book five scribblings. Nope, I'm not kidding. I only wish I was. 

Tomorrow will be another long, hard day strapped to the keyboard, I guess. 

Headache? Sore wrists? No. Not at all! I'm doing grand, really. 

Will book five be worth all the pain? Oh, YES!!! Just you wait and see. :)

Book five update...

That moment when you believe you've almost got the book five edits all nailed down, but then you realize that 'The End' hasn't actually been transcribed to the computer yet.

It was hiding itself away in an A5 notepad...

A very FULL A5 notepad full of lots of scribbly writing. *sob* That's all my plans for tomorrow out of the window, then.

Good job the kids are still away with my mum.